"feint praise"--eggcorn?

[Stephen Goranson]

>From "faint praise"?
Apparently not in the eggcorn database. GB gives "about 277 results."

"Rowan, who received his DPhil a few years before me (in the area then normally called “patristics”) when he was at Wadham and I was at Keble, have only one thing in common: we wrote poetry.  His is good and mine is bad.  That is not a plea for mercy and feint praise; it is a fact."

In this blog:
http://rjosephhoffmann.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/williams-on-vermes-on-christian-origins/

Stephen Goranson
www.duke.edu/~goranson

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